Schizophrenia - Science and Practice (Hardcover)

Schizophrenia: Science and Practice brings together the work of many of today's most distinguished authorities in psychiatry. From diverse perspectives, these specialists review what is presently known-and unknown-about schizophrenia. The conceptual underpinnings of the diagnosis of schizophrenic illness, recent elaborations of psychosocial and developmental theories, current genetic and biochemical research, and traditional as well as newer treatment approaches are among the topics discussed in this unusually clear and lively account. How effective are contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches to schizophrenia? What drug therapies are being used or proposed, and why? What about the treatment milieu and the difficult strategic questions surrounding the recent movement toward the "deinstitutionalization" of schizophrenic patients? Ultimately, should schizophrenia be defined as a toxic illness or as a way of life? In attempting to answer these and other questions, Dr. Shershow is joined by contributors Irwin Savodnik, Seymour Kety, Theodore Udz, Gerald Klerman, Ian Creese, Solomon Snyder, Leo Hollister, Jonathan Borus, Daniel Schwartz, and Loren Mosher, among others. All the issues confronting psychiatry as a self-conscious discipline within contemporary medicine converge on the problem of schizophrenia. The important hope Schizophrenia: Science and Practice raises is that a fruitful pluralism among the variety of approaches to schizophrehia, and to psychiatric problems in general, can be sustained.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1978
First published:	September 1978
Editors:	John C. Shershow
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-79112-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	0-674-79112-6
Barcode:	9780674791121

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